Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director of the American Social Hygiene Association, a consolidation of well-meaning organizations which then primarily wanted to eradicate prostitution. Soon practically all U. S. municipalities abolished their "red light" districts to which houses of prostitution, advertised...
...Stanford University Cinemactor Robert Taylor (Pomona 1933) donated $250 for study of the psychology of the theatre...
Floodlights commonly used in cinema studios may heat up small sets, make actors too uncomfortable to do their best work. Beads of sweat on shapely noses and fine foreheads will ruin takes. Last week a bulky Dutch physicist named Cornells Bol, working at Stanford University, had film producers interested in a tiny, super-powerful lamp which will keep their stars cool while working...
Cornells Bol talks wittily in his imperfect English, likes sloppy, comfortable clothes, has a plump wife and five chubby sons for whom he keeps a horse and a ponycart. Born in Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe...
...island of Kauai. Last week a great-granddaughter of the roving Rices prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian Legislature, bought the famed 200,000-acre Hay Creek sheep and cattle ranch east of the Cascades near the village of Madras, 150 miles southeast of Portland...